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Photograph: Mark Hanson/Astronomy Photographer of the Year NGC 6888 by Mark Hanson (US). This colourful starscape taken from Rancho Hidalgo, New Mexico, US reveals the searing heat of the Crescent Nebula glowing in a whirl of red and blue.

The beautiful Trifid Nebula is a cosmic study in colorful contrasts. Also known as it lies about light-years away toward the nebula rich constellation Sagittarius. A star forming region in the plane of our galaxy, the Trifid Nebula is about 40 light-years

Simeis 147 (Spaghetti Nebula) is a large SN remnant in the constellations of Taurus and Auriga. It is the result of a SN explosion about years ago, it is 3000 light years away and about 140 light years across.what's your spaghetti policy?

Halloween in the Sky - Menacing flying forms garish colors.stand out in this cosmic close-up of the eastern Veil Nebula.a large supernova remnant, the expanding debris cloud from the death explosion of a massive star in the constellation Cygnus.

It's the bubble versus the cloud. NGC the Bubble Nebula, is being pushed out by the stellar wind of massive central star. Image by Larry Van Vleet

Each year the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope releases a brand new image to celebrate its birthday. This year, the subject of its celebratory snap is part of the Monkey Head Nebula, last viewed by Hubble in creating a stunning image released in known as…

The famous Horsehead Nebula is about light-years from Earth, in the constellation Orion. The nebula is located just to the south of the star Alnitak, which is farthest east on Orion's Belt, and is part of the much larger Orion Molecular Cloud Complex.